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L'uomo ammette di aver rivestito la reliquia di cemento dopo averla sottratta dalla chiesa poiché si opponeva alla sua esposizione, riferisce la polizia.

• Secondo la polizia, il sospettato è stato visto in una sfuocata foto di sorveglianza mentre correva tra le panche della chiesa trasportando il cranio. • La polizia ceca è alla ricerca di un ladro che ha sottratto da una teca in una chiesa il cranio di 800 anni di un santo, fuggendo con la reliquia. • Una sfuocata foto della telecamera di sorveglianza, pubblicata tardi martedì, sembra mostrare una figura vestita di nero che trasporta quello che, secondo la polizia, è il cranio di Santa Zdislava di Lemberk.

Exclusive: Sev.en Global Investments could turn state-owned businesses into Britain’s biggest steelmakerBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of the UK’s largest electric steelworks has said the government should find a single buyer for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK (SSUK), a move that would create the country’s biggest steelmaker.Sev.en Global Investments, owned by the Czech billionaire Pavel Tykač, said it not only plans to invest £100m in the UK – mainly in the electric arc steelworks in Cardiff it bought last year – but also has the ability to invest “hundreds of millions of pounds” more in Britain under its 7 Steel brand. Continue reading...

• U.S. Men's National Team fell 3-2 in overtime to Czechia on April 22 in preliminary round of IIHF World Championship. • Goals by American forwards kept game close, but Czechia netted winner late. • Team USA advances to face next opponent Friday, aiming for quarterfinal berth.

Government aims to move TV and radio funding under state control, which critics say undermines independenceJournalists at the Czech Republic’s public broadcasters have said they are prepared to go on strike unless the government of the billionaire prime minister, Andrej ​Babiš, backs down on its plan to scrap licence fees and move funding under state control.In what the journalists see as a threat to their independence, the government wants to replace the current system, in which households pay fees directly to public service media, with direct funding from the state budget. “Licence fees are cancelled,” the culture minister, Oto Klempíř, declared last week. Continue reading...